Leah Angstman

Leah Angstman is a transplanted Midwesterner, unsure of what feels like home anymore. She has served as editor-in-chief of the press company, Alternating Current, for two decades, bringing over 200 books by independent authors and poets into the small press. She writes historical fiction, poetry, and plays; has had 20 chapbooks published; and has earned two Pushcart Prize nominations. Recently, she won the 2013 Nantucket Directory Poetry Contest and took honorable mentions in the 2013 Bevel Summers Prize for Short Fiction (Washington & Lee University), the 2013 Baltimore Science Fiction Society Poetry Contest, and the 2013 West Coast Eisteddfod Poetry Competition. Her work has been published in numerous journals, including Los Angeles Review of Books, Tupelo Quarterly, Midwestern Gothic, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Suisun Valley Review (Solano College), and Shenandoah: The Washington & Lee University Review.

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